This paper characterizes the determinants of the pricing policy of a firm that operates on a two-sided market. The application market is client-server software on the Internet. To study the research question, we draw some elements of the literatures on new product diffusion and on two-sided...

Empirical studies use the total area as a measure of land factor. This measure is flawed as it ignores the effectiveness of that total area. We develop an estimator of effective area based on spatial population distribution. The empirical application for the OECD countries highlights the...

This article models the intertemporal behaviour of a firm that sets product prices and simultaneously invests in R&D. The model shows that the dynamic pricing rule follows the evolution of the production cost and is independent of the evolution of the product quality. Thus, process innovation,...